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The Scroll newspaper has been in print since 1905, when BYU-Idaho was known as the Ricks Academy, a locally run school with a newly-developed high school program. At the time this newspaper was known as the “Student Rays,” and was printed monthly. In 1933 the name of the newspaper changed to “The Purple Flash.” In 1937 the name was changed again to “Viking Flashes,” and in 1938 the name finally changed to “The Viking Scroll.” The paper continued under this name until 1972, when it changed to “The Scroll.” The Scroll is still in print at BYU-Idaho as its official newspaper.

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Volume CVIII • Issue 32
May 8, 1997
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Ricks faculty members begin 17-day trip to China
By Teressa Genetti
Scroll staff
Photo by ETHAN SCOTT
Malia Jensen cries in her father's arms as she watches
her mother leave for two weeks on a trip to China.
About 20 faculty members across
campus departments have made
the world their laboratory for the
next 17 days as they travel to
China.
About eight years ago former
Humanities Department Chairman
John Galbraith envisioned getting
the fine arts, music and history
teachers out of Rexburg to experi­ence
first-hand the places they
teach about in class.
Three years ago, that vision
became a reality when the human­ities
department received an
endowment to travel to Russia at a
much reduced price. Last year fac­ulty
went to Russia again, but this
year is the first for the teachers to
visit China.
A group of 20 faculty, 12 spouses
and 42 Ricks alumni and friends
left Monday morning and arrived
in China about 48 hours later.
Current department chairman,
Lee Warnick said the trips to
Russia helped establish a relation­ship
between the LDS Church and
that country. He hopes for a simi­lar
outcome with the trip to China
and feels the faculty members
have been inspired to go there.
"When we look at the faculty, we
have incredible teachers. But
we're relatively isolated in
Rexbu*"^/' Warnick said. "It gets
people out of their comfort zone to
see, feel and meet people across
the world, so they can put the
pieces together for students."
Even though much of the trip
includes tours of major art and
historic attractions, other parts of
the trip have a more direct educa­tional
purpose.
The teachers have been request­ed
to visit a junior college for ele­mentary
education teachers. The
school there has already asked for
the Ricks instructors to compare
notes and to bring English text­books.
"I'd be very disappointed if the
trip were just for people to tour"
Warnick said. "We are here to
serve the people and the Lord, and
we're ready to do so."
The trip will include a five-day
river trip on the Yangtze river,
which enables the group a unique
view of China. They will be able
to stop at smaller villagers as well
a visit to the world's largest
hydroelectric dam
which is currently
being built.
After the river trip,
the tour will move on
to Beijing to visit the
forbidden city and the
current seat of the
Chinese government.
Then they will board
boats to Chongqing to
visit the Panda Zoo.
Then group will fly to Xian to visit
the ancient capital of China and
study the burial complexes for one
of the first emperors of China.
Glade Merrell, a humanities
teacher on campus, emphasizes
the philosophy of Greece and
Europe in his classes because he
doesn't know much about Chinese
philosophy.
But he hopes to learn more
about Confucius, Taoism and
Buddhism on the trip.
"I'm going to attempt to chat
with those who know enough
English to see what they really
mean when they say they get in
touch with the universal forces."
The tour will end in Hong Kong
where the group will be able to go
through several temple sessions.
Nurses receive caps at year-end ceremony
By Jenny Treasure
Managing editor
" I would be my brother's keeper: I
would learn the healer's art. To the
wounded and the weary, I would show a
gentle heart."
This verse, taken from Hymn 220,
"Lord, I Would Follow Thee" was the
theme of the nursing department's fresh­man
capping ceremony Friday in the
Kirkham Auditorium.
"This theme denotes service, empathy,
giving back and caring" Kim van
Wagoner, nursing department chair, said.
"It represents what the nursing students
are all about."
Sixty-one freshman nursing students
participated in the exercises. Each
woman received a nurse's cap, and each
man received a pair of suspenders.
Van Wagoner said the men were given
suspenders for the simple reason that
they don't wear nursing caps.
"Since nursing is also becoming a male
profession, we are thinking of doing
other things instead of capping in the
future" van Wagoner said. One of these
options is a first-year pinning that
would be tied into the second-year
nursing student pinning.
Capping dates back to Florence
Nightingale as a way to differenti­ate
between nursing and medicine.
"Nurses used to do everything
from taking care of the sick to social
work" van Wagoner said.
Now, however, capping is used as
a way to distinguish between dif­ferent
schools. Each school designs
its own cap to give to its nursing stu­dents.
As recognition of completion of the first
year of nursing, students were offered
advice from their instructors as part of
the ceremony.
Barbara Conway, one of the speakers at
the capping ceremony, talked about the
three C's of nursing, the first being car­ing.
"Caring is at the top of the list"
Conway said in her speech to the fresh­man
nursing students. "Besides caring
for other people, care for yourself,
because if you don't, you will be
ineffective in caring for others."
The second "C" was commit­ment.
She said that the students
must be committed or they would
experience hesitancy and despon­dency.
"However, if you are committed,
you will have blessings poured out
upon you" she said.
Conway also mentioned that
when making commitments, students
should remember to put emphasis on
family first and foremost.
The third "C" Conway talked of was
change.
"Change is a part of nursing" Conway
said. "Welcome it, because with change
comes the chance to grow. You must
learn and change always or you will not
succeed."
New women's
coach named
Former coach of the Lady-
Vikings basketball team, Lori
Woodland, will return as head
coach after three years to replace
Trent Shippen, who was recently
named head women's basketball
coach at Brigham Young
University.
Woodland coached at Ricks for
nine years during which time the
team gained a record of 166-83. In
her last season in 1993, the team
won the Region 18 championship
and Woodland was named the
Region 18 Women's Basketball
Coach of the Year.
Woodland said about returning,
"I'm excited. I'm enthused. I feel
like I'm whole again. This is who
I am. . . I feel grateful to have my
identity back."
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